Today, at the closing session of the World Forum for Democracy, the Council of Europe announced that the winner of its Democracy Innovation Award is the DDLD Living Archive - Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD), Mexico (Lab 8)

Three initiatives out of the 39 at the Forum were shortlisted for the final vote:

• Democracy Fitness: train your democracy muscles, Denmark (Lab 1)
• South Sudanese Women Leveraging the use of Social Media and Media to foster Sustainable Peace and Development - South Sudan Women Intellectuals Forum (Lab 5)
• DDLD Living Archive - Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD), Mexico (Lab 8)

The Forum brought together in Strasbourg 1200 participants from 80 countries across the world to answer the question “Democracy=Peace?”.